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Delbert Gee
American judge From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Delbert Gee is a retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge who served for 20 years until 2022, presiding over both civil and criminal cases.[1][2]
He began his legal career in 1980 as a Deputy District Attorney in Ventura County where he tried 33 jury trials to verdict, and then spent the next 20 years in private practice as a civil litigator in San Francisco.
Judicial Career
Judge Gee presided primarily over a civil direct calendar and trial court, and a criminal felony and misdemeanor calendar and trial court, during his 20 year judicial career. He also presided over a probate, conservatorship, and guardianship court, collaborative and drug courts, and a juvenile dependency and delinquency court.[3]
He was the last judge to preside over criminal cases in the Alameda courthouse, and he presided over two civil jury trials conducted entirely by video during the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] He was a member of the court's executive committee, and was the supervising judge of the court's probate division and of the Alameda courthouse.[5]
In 2002, he was honored by the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area (AABA),[6] and was presented in 2010 with the Judicial Distinguished Service Award by the Alameda County Bar Association[7] and a resolution in his honor by the California State Assembly.[8]
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Legal career
Judge Gee became a member of the State Bar of California[9] in May 1980 and began his legal career as a Deputy District Attorney in Ventura County where he tried 33 jury trials to verdict as the county's first Asian-Pacific Islander American prosecutor.[10]
He then spent the next 20 years in San Francisco as a civil litigator, first as an associate with Hassard, Bonnington, Rogers & Huber and then with Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon, and later as a partner with Sturgeon, Keller, Phillips, Gee & O'Leary PC and then as a founding partner of the Pacific West Law Group LLP.[11]
He specialized in the fields of health and liability insurance litigation, medical malpractice litigation, and health care law[1][12], and was a certified mediator.[13]
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Education
Judge Gee graduated from the University of California, Davis[14] with a bachelor of arts degree in political science in 1977[1] where he was a Congressional intern in Washington, D.C. during the Bicentennial summer of 1976, and was co-chair of the campus Media Board.[15]
He then graduated from the Santa Clara University School of Law[16] in December 1979[17] where he was an associate editor of the Santa Clara Law Review,[18] and clerked for the Criminal Division of the office of the U.S. Attorney in San Jose.[19]
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Judge Gee was a first generation college student who was born and raised in Alameda County by immigrant parents who never had an opportunity to attend college,[20] and has been active for decades in numerous professional, civic and service organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
He continues to be a sustaining member of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area[21] where he founded the annual AABA Judges Scholarship[22] and is a member of their Judicial Pathways to the Bench mentorship program,[23][24] a life member of the California Asian Pacific American Judges Association,[25] and was a former board member of the Alameda County Bar Association.[26]
He is also a member of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation,[27][28] and a life member of the Wa Sung Community Service Club[29] in Oakland Chinatown and the Martin C. Kauffman 100 Club of Alameda County.[30]
He was previously a board member of Alameda Youth Basketball,[31] the Amelia Earhart Elementary School PTA,[32] and the Alameda Free Library Foundation,[33] and was a member of the California Judges Association,[34] the Rotary Club of Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco[35] where he was a Paul Harris Fellow, and the Oakland Chinatown Chamber of Commerce,[36] and was a charter member of the health law committee[37] of the State Bar of California in 2002.
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